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Contents
Agenda for 11-4-2014
Chair: Brian McPherson
Introductions
- Nicole-guest, friend of Warnick, into everything, like welding
- David-guest, almost a new member but no Max
Show and Tell
- Steve Nowicki made a really cool piece of wall art- Koi
- Greg made a cool mechanical claw out of masonite
- Ted's visit to London
- Visited North London Hackerspace
- Has slideshow
- They have about the same square footage, over 2 floors
- Has over 1000 paying members, who pay what they can, no fixed dues amount
- Space is eerily similar to ours, like freakily identical
- Kevin made "fine art"/nudie pics, yay!
- Laser Cut LED Chandeliers from Halloween party
- Bragosaurus Rex now has an LED backbone
- i3 Handstamps for parties
- Charlie made a lead casting from the negative of a piece of laser-engraved wood
- Jamie/Mike made cool laser-cut awards for the costume contest
- Visitor came from Pumping Station One in Chicago and was really impressed with both the space and the community. Go i3 people!
Announcements
Evan put a bunch of XBoxes in the Graveyard
Old Business
Completed
Tabled
Ongoing
T-Shirts
Action Item: Justin - Send out a T-Shirt survey to the members
New Business
Member Survey
- Point of contact Konrad B
- Google Forms survey received 48 responses
- Results
- 48 responses
- Most people are pretty or very satisfied
- Commons area most used, Injection molding last, Sky Zone amazingly not last
- What zone do you want to use? CNC zone first, compute zone last
- Most wanted zone: Ventilation booth, then infrastructure, cooking, classroom, lots of others had 1
- 70% of people responding have member storage
- 42% of people without storage wanted storage
- Most people use their storage sometimes...but not every time.
- 80% of people have participated in potlock
- 50% have served i3 in some capacity
- 15% don't know how to close down the space
- 75-80% are comfortable in the space and feel safe around themselves
- 73% have represented i3 at an external event
- EVERYONE LIKES SURVEYS!
Ventilation Booth
- Point of contact Konrad B
- Current situation: People, especially when it's cold, do painting and resin indoors, and it's smelly and unhealthy
- Design
- I've been putting together some plans for a ventilation booth along the East wall of the space
- Basing my design on OSHA and EPA standards to my best ability
- I have a background in air flow calculations and combustion, so I am able to math all of the maths
- Location
- Either in the current injection molding zone (CNC zone doesn't like the idea of the smell)
- Or by the welding zone (by high temperature 'splody things)
- Timing
- Pending approval, installation would begin at the December Pot Lock
Action Item: Konrad - Bring a preliminary design, budget, and floor plan as part of a proposal to the next board meeting
Open Board Position
- Devon resigned
- Board is asking the rest of the board nominees from the September election if they are still willing to serve
- After all of the current nominees are collected, there will be a mock vote by the membership
- The board will use the results of the member vote to inform their decision to appoint a new member
Server Upgrades
- Current compute/network server infrastructure sucks "Giant Heaping Monkey Balls"
- Front-facing VM Skynet runs website & phones
- Fab Lab machine also runs VMs that control all the Fab Lab Equipment
- Current hardware is power-inefficient, hard to maintain due to age, and untrustworthy
- People who currently repair the server want it to be in the hands of a company, not their spare time
- Brings up the question-Is this a Tool or a Project, and people in the know agree that this is most definitely a Tool.
- Amelia Meyer got quotes from RAVE Computers, his vendor for industrial machines File:2014 RAVE Quote.pdf
- RR-4U-I3D-2630-01: (1) Xeon machine for $4000 or so
- RR-4U-I3D-2630-02: (2) Xeon machine for $4800 or so (purchased, hardac.i3detroit.local)
- Options are buy one of these, probably the single-Xeon machine, or have someone else produce a quote
- Tabled to the mailing list
Infrastructure Zone Coordinator
- Lego nominates Evan as Infrastructure Zone Coordinator
- Tabled to the board meeting
Selling the Forklift
- Jody needs to know details by the 25th of November in order to sell it at the same auction that the welders recently sold at
- Also trying to sell it on craigslist before then
Pop Coordinator
- Terry needs to resign from the non-official position of pop warden and needs a repacement
- Basically person who handles the petty cash from the pop fund
- We used to just bring in cases individually, and that worked fairly well when we were smaller
- This doesn't work when no one does it
- When people don't buy pop that's reasonably cheap, we lose money
- Person in charge should be delegating, not doing the lion's share
- Evan wants stated procedure to get preferred brand and get reimbursed
Action Item: Terry - send email to the list about pop fund warden
Halloween Party Recap
Children's Hospital Project
- Greg and Roger are helping the Children's Hospital
- They're making little tesselated wooden pieces for sick kids to paint
- It's a really awesome project, good PR and good for the community
Space Project Updates
Current Projects & Status:
| Project Name/Desc | Status | Champion | Coordinator | Budget FY14 | Initial Due Date | Current Due Date | |
| New CRM | Active | Jamie | Board | not yet | unknown | ||
| Sell Welders | Done | Jody | Jody | no | 11/04/2014 | ||
| Weld Zone exhaust | Active | Jody | Jody | TBD | 12/31/2014 | ||
| Desks for WhiteBoard Room | Active | Justin | Max? | no | unknown | ||
| Caster Stands for Kiln | Active | Terry | Terry | YES | 12/31/14 | ||
| ^^^^ On Schedule for December - Terry | |||||||
| Tying the Keypad to the CRM | Tabled | Evan | Board | no | waiting on new CRM | ||
| RFID for equipment | Orphaned | ||||||
| Equipment Access via the Wiki | ACTIVE | Jamie | - | No | End of year to complete beta testing? | ||
| New i3 PowerSports car | Active | Jon | Matt | YES | 07/15/15 | ||
| Ducting for CNC Plasma Cutter | Tabled | stopped due to plasma cutter leaving | |||||
| Urinal Repair | DONE | Nate W | Board | YES | 11/01/14 | 10/21/14 | |
| New compressor | ORPHANED | Nate B | ? | no | sep 2014? | ... | |
| Rotary Tool for Bumblebee | Active | Roger | Matt A./Devon T. | YES | N/A | ||
| Out door sign for i3 | Active | Greg | Board | NO | TBD | TBD | |
| Sign in Desk, Foyer | Active | Greg | Board | Yes | TBD | TBD | |
Sell Welders
- They're gone! Check should be coming to the space any day now. Whoever checks the mailbox, please let me know when they get here.
Weld Exhaust
Jody's feeling unsure of how to get this rolling. Previous help has petered out. Requesting help before bruteforcing the issue.
Zone updates
Bike Zone
no updates
CNC Zone
- Adam Leeb completed his 2nd Hemingwrite aluminum case on the HAAS. The 2nd case really turned out nice. Adam, and his teammate Patrick Paul, are off to New York to the final round of the contest they entered.
- There are a couple of other projects heating up too.
Compute Zone
no updates
Craft Room
nothing
E Lab
Thursday is a group workshop to replace counterfeit FTDI chips on Arduinos
Fab Lab
nothing
Injection Molding
nothing
Kiln Zone
- Vacuuform extension cord is fixed (thanks Nate W). A new list of Authorized users for the kilns and the Vacuuform will be coming out this month.
Laser Zone
no wardens here
Metal Shop
Steve and Jon are re-designing racks for scrap metal pieces
Sky Zone
- Frogs
Tool Crib
- Drills wiki page updated to reflect new authorization policy
- Drill bit dispenser in works.
- Please clean up after yourself
Tree House
warden not here
Vinyl Zone
warden not here
Welding Zone
- Welders are sold!
- Classes went well. (though jody needs to be tougher about enforcing class limits)
- Trying to find some expertise on putting in exhaust system. If no help is found, Jody will be going to a store that sells stuff and buying whatever the sales staff tell him to buy, after posting an appropriate budget request to the board.
Wood Shop
- Replacement brake from SawStop is here
- Make sure that everyone knows that "Trained" has been changed to "Authorized on"
SIGs
i3 MotorSports
- Acquiring a rolling frame for the I3 new car #33.
HAM
Letterpress
Other active SIGs?
Action Items
| Action Item | POC |
|---|---|
| Send out a T-Shirt survey to the members | Justin |
| Bring a preliminary design, budget, and floor plan as part of a proposal to the next board meeting | Konrad |
| send email to the list about pop fund warden | Terry |
Broom Party
Clean up after the halloween party
Meeting Metrics
- Time completed: 8:45
- Funds appropriated: $0
- Attendees: 22
Attendance
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